Chadwick D. Miller, M.D.

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Dr. Miller's research interests are focused on cardiovascular MRI, coronary artery disease, chest pain, cardiovascular emergencies and pulmonary emboli. His most recent research has looked at ED evaluation of chest pain.

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IN THE NEWS

Dr. James W. Hoekstra, chair of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has been named Vice President for Clinical Business Development effective September 1, 2012. Hoekstra will continue to serve as Chair of Emergency Medicine.

ScienceDaily and other national news outlets have featured the findings of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher Chadwick Miller. His study may help reduce hospital admissions and treatment costs for patients entering the ED for treatment of chest pain.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has received a $7 million, seven-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of Health (NHLBI) to conduct clinical trials for the Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL).

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center doctors have found that using stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in an Emergency Department observation unit to care for patients with acute chest pain is a win-win - for the patient and the institution.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and
Iredell Health System have established a partnership in which Wake Forest
Baptist physicians and other medical professionals are providing emergency care
at Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville.

Hoekstra is the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in a university-based level-one trauma center. He wrote two books: "Handbook of Cardiovascular Emergencies" in 1996 and "Handbook of Cardiovascular Emergencies, 2nd Ed.," in 2001. He is past president of the Society of Academic

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